According to the US Bureau of Labor and Statistics, the average cost of a dozen eggs in December was $4.15, up 36 percent ...

ARTfactory and Birmingham Green made headlines in Manassas this week. ARTfactory’s Rooftop Productions, now Actors Theatre, ...

Experts stressed that the new strain did not itself appear to be an immediate human threat. But the rise of a new strain is ...

The progression of the species-jumping disease has been unprecedented, including the first-ever U.S. cases of infections in ...

Are eggs safe to eat amid the current avian flu outbreak? Have people in the U.S. contracted bird flu? We VERIFY the answers to common questions.

The virus was reported in a commercial flock of ducks. It’s the first time the subtype has been detected in the United States ...

Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo has closed down exhibits and euthanized birds after a cotton patch goose died of avian flu.

while one dead bird does not reach the threshold of suspicion for avian influenza, birds that are not usually found in the Falkland Islands are routinely swabbed for surveillance. Unfortunately ...

In April, the tally of affected birds in New York was about 25,000. The bird flu outbreak raised alarms in late ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — Researchers have identified nine mutations in a bird flu strain from a person in Texas. Bad news: this strain is more capable of causing disease and replicates better in the brain.

Back in 2023, VERIFY reported that egg prices were spiking at that time because of the impacts of bird flu and lingering inflation. While egg prices soon dropped, they’ve since climbed again to ...

For 30 years now, scientists have worried about the possibility of a human outbreak of bird flu . Today, however, many experts believe we're closer than ever to a new pandemic. But the big ...